St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-04
BRIEF TALKS
On Matters Of Current and Local
Interest.


Frank Y. HOll, the well-known engin-
eer whose name always gets into the
papers as Hall, has just returned from
Chicago, where the Grand Brotherhood
of Engineers was i'll session. He is a
member of the grand executive board
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive fire.
men, but several of the chiefs of his
order attended the engineers meeting
as guests. He is very much interested
in the question of pumps and very well
informed, too, as his Minneapolis head
quarters are at the East side pumping
station. Said he: ''While at Chicago l
took particular pains to examine the
pumping system, on account of the re-
cent fight made here against the GaSkell
pump. At the main pumping station,
which lifts and distributes the flow from
the crib, there are six pumps; one is a
CregeOr, put in in ~, three are Quin-
lords and two are GaskellS, just put i'll.
They have not been broken in yet,
but the engineers are in every way
satisfied with them. But went out to
Hyde Park, in the town of Lake, to see
the Geskell there. 1t has been thor
oughly broken in to work, and has been
working a year and half without a
dollar of repairs. without hot journal
or single rod disconnected. When l
left there it had been running for sixty
days without closing the throttle. Do
they like it? | should say they do"
Mr. Holl is charmed with the pump
and thinks as muchOf it as do the alder
men who made the trip.
**
81 am not alarmed about the cholera"
said Health Officer KilvingtOn, when
told the New York papers were discuss
ing the probability of a ScOurge of that
dread disease sweeping over the cOun-
try. There is no telling when we may
have visitation. Such epidemicS often
come when we least expect them, and
all we can do is to be in the best state
of preparation. The city is, l think, in
fair condition to resist such an epidemic,
and this condition is being improved
every week. We are paying special at
tentiOn to emigrantS, as that is prob
able means of Transporting disease.
While / am away Aid. Cooley has volun-
teered to run the board of health and
DIR. Freeman will look for the emigrantS.
A dispatch will bring me here at any
moment. Yes, there are other ways of
carrying contagious and infectious dis
eases. and shipping bodies is one that
we must watch carefully. Only yeSter-
day body of a child that died of
typhoid fever was shipped in by eX-
press. without even the company know
ing it,"
DIR. Kilvington left last night for
Memphis, to attend the national health
boards convention.
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81 know of no plan that has been de-
termined upon, in relation to the plans
for the new city and county building"
caiH Arahitact Nv II nanniS vpctardaU
There may and may not be competi-
tive drawing. As usually carried on,
competitive work is humbug. If en-
tirely square, the prizes are not of Suf-
ficient value TO tempt tirst-claSS archi-
tect. When the plans for the centen-
NAL building were thrown open to COM
petition. not single architect of gen.
eral reputation submitted drawings.
They are now offering $4,000 for the
first prize for drawings for the new city
hall al New York and the authorities of
BuenOs AyreS offers $4,000 for the sue
ceSsful plans for new capitol building.
That is something like it. Look at the
way the exposition and Masonic temple
people had their competitions. The
johnson building? Well. just wait I'M
til l get it completed and then see ii it
is not beauty"
Maj. George A. Camp secretly exam
ined the weather bulletins, a Virgins
chart, the barometer and thermometer,
and then, armed to the teeth with mete-
geological Information, stepped out on
Washington avenue and began innO-
Gently snuffing the air and scrutiniZing
the sky. OF course the first person who
saw him, asked:
We'll, major, what's the weather go
ing TO do?''
Change, sir. Indian summer is over,
and winter will come. We may have
fair weather for three weeks, but l
would not be surprised if blizzard
should sweep over us before Sunday.
With this wind, and the barometer and
thermometer marking their relative pO-
sltiOns, almost anything may be ex-
pected. However, l would advise you
to get out your lur coat or else your
buster. You will need one or the other,
sure"
With which sapient advice the Mime
apolis Virgins bought a ticket for Los
Angeles.